This three-hour walking tour of Boston's historic
turn-of-the-century Jewish immigrant neighborhoods will include
visits to Boston's North End, West End, and Beacon Hill, plus
stops at Boston's landmark Vilna Shul (1919) and the 1995 New
England Holocaust Memorial. The tour will focus on immigrant
housing; religious, social, and educational institutions; and
the civic response to mass immigration 100 years ago. Come and
walk some of Boston's most scenic and historic districts, and
trace the journeys of Jewish immigrants to Boston. Each tour is
limited (due to community guidelines), advance sign-up required.
Note: toilet facilities are extremely limited. Cost: $15 per person.

Lecture: How and why post-Expulsion Spanish Jews came to settle
in Newport (Rhode Island), New York, and other colonial American
communities. Tour the Touro Synagogue, the oldest synagogue in
continental North America. Also a walking tour of Newport's
"Historic Hill" including the Jewish colonial
cemetery and sights of American historical significance.

Daily trips to the National
Archives branch at Pittsfield, located two and a half hours
west of Boston. Holdings at Pittsfield include the complete
New York Passenger Arrival Manifests; Philadelphia Passenger
Arrival Manifests; Passenger Arrival Lists for other ports
and the Canadian Border; complete Russian Consular Records;
WWI Draft Registration records for New York and New England;
Complete U.S. Federal Census records; other resources.